Castaway Modernism: Basel's Acquisitions of "Degenerate Art"

Taking inventory of a collection saved from the Nazis' assault on modern art

This hardcover volume illuminates a pivotal moment in the history of the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937, the Nazi cultural policy denounced thousands of works as "degenerate" and forcibly removed them from German museums, selling many to collectors and museums abroad. Georg Schmidt, the Kunstmuseum Basel's director at the time, acquired over 20 of these looted works, including avant-garde masterpieces such ...